Recommendation for storing/archiving AVCHD material

I'm sure this isn't a new question but after a bit of searching I still wasn't able to find it on this forum.
I have one of the newish Sony consumer cameras with flash memory. I use Log and Transfer in FCE to import the footage and that's all good. However I have noticed that when I use the Sony software that came with the camera to import the footage (Windows only) the files end up being a lot smaller. Unfortunately I can't use these files with FCE and there are plenty of posts on this forum detailing why not.
My question is: what is the "best practice" method for storing/archiving AVCHD footage? If I keep the .MOV files that FCE creates then I will be storing 4 or 5 times as much data as the .MTS (and related files) created by the Sony software supplied with the camera. So should I be importing the footage twice - once into FCE and once in Windows - and archiving the smaller (Windows/Sony) files? If I do this then how can I get FCE to recognise them if I ever need the source files again - do I have to transfer them back to the camera or use a third party product to convert them? What do others do?

I back up the entire original AVCHD folder off the camera onto another hard drive. Store and maintain like an iTunes library of MP3 files. You can rename the top-level AVCHD folder as long as all the subfolders remain intact. Those files are about 1/10th the size of the ingested footage and a lot more manageable. In fact, I never actually log and transfer from the camera itself. Just copy the files to backup immediately, then mount whatever folder applies. I also keep a final uncompressed QuickTime movie of each "finished" project. Eventually, I toss the ingested footage for older projects. This means it would be somewhat difficult to go back and rebuild an older project, but I'm personally more of a "done and next project" person. Others might not be. AVCHD footage takes up no more disk space than than HDV once it's imported. It all gets converted to the much larger Apple Intermediate Codec for editing. Your decision is essentially whether you want to back up tapes or back up electronic files of your original media, and how long you want to keep the bloated AIC media on your drive for continual tweaking down the road. Either way, you'll likely want a couple large hard drives.

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